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Test Kitchen on Windows
carpnick edited this page Oct 22, 2014
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Thursday, Issaquah, 11:30AM
- Need a way to hint if command interpreter is bash or posh
- Finalize the transport mechanism (Fletcher Nichol is the tech champ for this)
- WinRM Transport
- SSH Transport
- Create command plugin layer (Jay Mundrawala is the tech champ for this)
- Fletcher to push a small kitchen release (Fletcher Nichol to complete)
- Regression test the new changes with existing functions (linux machines, etc) (Matt Stratton is the tech champ for this)
- Small kitchen release mixed into a ChefDK release
An RFC process for Kitchen should be created. Investigate having this facilitated/hosted by CHEF Software. Please use the comments on this gist to share your thoughts on how to accomplish this. Maybe an ever two week meeting in #kitchenci.
- Running sshd on the Windows guest
- The Transport/WinRM fork done by Salim Afiune
- A fork of the aforementioned fork, using chef-metal (Matt Wrock)
- Other forks of the fork
Advantage of the Transport mode is you could replace using winrm/ssh with a cloud API (aws, azure, etc)
There are issues with privilege escalation/security context when using WinRM (citation needed)
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2773898
- The security restrictions on remote use of the WUA APIs are documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387288(v=vs.85).aspx
Suggested to create an OSS implementation of of PS Remoting endpoints (someone confirm I wrote that down properly)
Kitchen needs to be able to reboot/re-run a converge action
- Signal codes?
- There is a reboot resource (xplat) in Chef 12. Question about being able to modify the exit codes.
- Kitchen should consume exit codes in a standard way from provisioners (e.g., chef-client can return code 1 for reboot, and would translate that to 300 if that is the code that Kitchen wants)
Push jobs in Kitchen??
This is NOT the same session as the one conducted in Greenwood on Friday at 11:00.